Harry Hiestand Announces Retirement – Notre Dame Preventing Irish – Formal Athletics Internet site

Harry Hiestand, a 40-12 months collegiate coaching veteran who returned to Notre Dame in 2022 for a second time as the Joe Moore Offensive Line Mentor, has declared his retirement from coaching. 

“I have manufactured the choice to retire,” Hiestand claimed. “It is significant to me to expend time with my relatives, as I have two young ones competing in higher education athletics, one particular for his previous season, and I have decided it is time for me to be a element of that. I am grateful for the chance Father Jenkins, Jack Swarbrick and primarily Mentor Freeman gave me to return for a seventh period coaching the offensive line at Notre Dame.

“Coach Freeman sets the example for Notre Dame Soccer each individual day, and he delivers out the very best in all of us. The players, in particular the offensive line, are the best section of this good career and I thank them for their challenging do the job.”

Hiestand returned to Notre Dame for the 2022 season immediately after paying out the 2018 and 2019 seasons as the offensive line mentor for the Chicago Bears. His to start with term with the Notre Dame soccer application was from 2012 by way of 2017. 

“I want to individually thank Mentor Hiestand for coming out of retirement for my 1st yr as a head coach, and raising the typical, not only for our offensive line, but for our whole group,” Dick Corbett Head Coach Marcus Freeman reported. 

“We are so grateful for all of the work he has set in throughout his two stints right here at Notre Dame. Mentor Hiestand has seasoned achievements at the best amounts of coaching and I am permanently grateful for the knowledge he has shared with myself and our overall coaching staff members. Coach Hiestand will be for good a component of Notre Dame Soccer. Congratulations to Harry, Terri and his full relatives on a significantly deserved retirement from coaching! We desire them all of the greatest.”

Hiestand helped acquire the 2022 group into just one of the a lot more reliable models in the region. The Irish rushed for more than 200 yards six situations throughout the 2022 period and completed 35th in the country at 189.9 yards per sport. Notre Dame also shielded the quarterback at a significant level, surrendering just 1.62 sacks per recreation (40th in the place). Sophomore remaining deal with Joe Alt collected 5 initially-crew All-The us honors from numerous publications when the year concluded, though still left guard Jarrett Patterson was also named a Next Workforce All-American by the American Football Coaches Affiliation. 

The Irish rushed for 2,457 yards in 2022, which was the sixth-maximum complete for the program given that 1996. 

Throughout his to start with time period with the Irish, Hiestand created a amount of offensive linemen into Major-3 round NFL Draft picks. In his 6 yrs in South Bend, he experienced 6 offensive linemen picked in the to start with three rounds (Quenton Nelson, to start with Ronnie Stanley, initially Zack Martin, very first Mike McGlinchey, initial Nick Martin, next and Chris Watt, 3rd). In excess of the 11 NFL Drafts (2002-12) prior to Hiestand’s arrival, only two Irish offensive linemen were drafted in the initially 3 rounds and not a single one because 2007.

Of the six linemen drafted, three of them were picked in the Best-10 picks of the draft (Nelson – 5th, 2018 McGlinchey – 9th, 2018 and Stanley – 6th, 2016). Nelson was the highest drafted Notre Dame participant since Rick Mirer was picked 2nd all round by the Seattle Seahawks in the 1993 draft.

Prior to his very first stint at Notre Dame, Hiestand coached at Tennessee for two a long time (2010-11) soon after doing the job with the offensive line with the Chicago Bears from 2005-09. He coached the offensive line at Illinois from 1997-2004 and at Missouri from 1994-96.

Hiestand’s very first coaching job at the FBS stage happened at Toledo, in which he labored with the restricted ends from 1988-89. He worked with the offensive line as a graduate assistant at USC in 1987, right after coaching the limited ends at Penn in 1986.

His 1st assistant coach function arrived at Hiestand’s alma mater, East Stroudsburg. Hiestand was offensive line coach from 1984-85 and assistant offensive line mentor in 1983 at the NCAA Division II faculty immediately after serving as a college student assistant in 1982.

Hiestand began his school profession as an offensive lineman at Springfield College (Mass.) before transferring to East Stroudsburg, in which injuries finished his enjoying vocation. He graduated from East Stroudsburg in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in wellness and actual physical training.

Born Nov. 19, 1958, in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Hiestand and his wife Terri have 4 children–Michael, Matthew, Mark and Sarah.

THE HIESTAND FILE

Hometown: Malvern, Pennsylvania
High University: Radnor Large Faculty
College: East Stroudsburg (Pa.) (Well being and Physical Education, 1983)
Wife: Terri
Kids: Daughter – Sarah Sons – Michael, Matthew and Mark

Participating in Experience

1978-79 Springfield (Mass.) Offensive Line
1980-81 East Stroudsburg (Pa.) Offensive Line

COACHING Profession

1982 East Stroudsburg (Pa.) Scholar Assistant
1983 East Stroudsburg (Pa.) Assistant Offensive Line
1984-85 East Stroudsburg (Pa.) Offensive Line
1986 Pennsylvania Tight Ends
1987 USC Graduate Assistant
1988 Toledo Limited Finishes
1989-93 Cincinnati Offensive Line
1994-96 Missouri Offensive Line
1997-04 Illinois Offensive Line
2005-09 Chicago Bears Offensive Line
2010-11 Tennessee Offensive Line
2012-17 Notre Dame Offensive Line
2018-19 Chicago Bears Offensive Line
2022 Notre Dame Offensive Line

BOWLS/PLAYOFF Video games COACHED

1988 USC (Rose)
1999 Illinois (Micron Computer system)
2001 Illinois (Sugar)
2005 Chicago Bears (NFL Divisional Round)
2006 Chicago Bears (Super Bowl XLI)
2010 Tennessee (Songs City)
2012 Notre Dame (BCS National Championship)
2013 Notre Dame (Pinstripe)
2014 Notre Dame (New music City)
2015 Notre Dame (Fiesta)
2017 Notre Dame (Citrus)
2018 Chicago Bears (NFL Wild Card Round)
2022 Notre Dame (Gator)